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Accessions administration: KV 2
Catalogue reference: PRO 57/15934
Date: 2000 Jan 1 - 2003 Dec 31
Accessions administration: KV 2
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George Sutherland AITKEN and Agnes Lachlan AITKEN: British. George AITKEN attended...
Catalogue reference: KV 2/2493
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This record is about the George Sutherland AITKEN and Agnes Lachlan AITKEN: British. George AITKEN attended... dating from 1928 Jan 01 - 1932 Dec 31 in the series The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- KV 2/2493
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1928 Jan 01 - 1932 Dec 31
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Description (What the record is about)
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George Sutherland AITKEN and Agnes Lachlan AITKEN: British. George AITKEN attended the Lenin School Moscow in 1927 and in the mid-1930s, with support from the Comintern, was deeply involved in underground British Communist Party activities. MI5 believed these included propaganda, the collection of military information and planning for sabotage acts. In 1937 he was political commissar to the XVth International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War. He and his wife resigned from the Communist Party in 1940. The file provides glimpses of pre-war 'illegal' Comintern promoted activity in Britain. Volume 5 was destroyed by enemy action in 1941
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- PF 39030 VOL 2
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- Public Record(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Retained Until 2007
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11341785/
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KV 2
The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files
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